Still on the ongoing defamation trial involving American actor Johnny Depp and his estranged wife, actress Amber Heard, taking the stand in the Fairfax, Virginia court, Johnny Depp had a lot to say against his ex-wife Amber Heard
Johnny Depp said Amber domestic abuse allegations against him were disturbing, heinous and “not based in any species of truth”.
“Nothing of the kind ever happened,” Depp said in court on Tuesday. “Never did I myself reach the point of striking Ms Heard in any way. Nor have I ever struck any woman in my life.”
I am obsessed with the truth,” Depp said. “So today is actually my first opportunity that I’ve been able to speak about this case.”
“It’s very strange when one day you’re Cinderella, so to speak, and then in 0.6 seconds you’re Quasimodo.”
“My goal is the truth because it killed me that people I had spoken with, that I had met with over the years … would think that I was a fraud and that I had lied to them,” he said.
Depp acknowledged that he had been dependent on Roxicodone, a painkiller, during the shooting of the fourth instalment of Pirates of the Caribbean, before he met Heard.
“I was bitten by the snake, and before you know it the monkey was on my back,” he said. “Once the addiction has got you, you’re not taking pills to get high, you’re taking them to get better” – or to avoid going into withdrawal.
“There have been no moments when I would have been considered out of control,” he said. “I’m not some maniac who needs to be high or loaded all the time.”
“She was literate, she was sweet, funny, nice, all those things. From the beginning of our relationship, she was wonderful, and then things just started to change … or reveal themselves, I think is a better way to put it.”
“It would stir up some rather unusual reactions from her,” he said. “I didn’t understand why I, as a 50-something-year-old man, couldn’t go to sleep when I wanted to … it started out like that.”
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